HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray

for as good as the upscaling is in the Ps3, I'm not sure there's enough incentive to replace the DVD's with BR

we've purchased very few BR titles to this point
we do have Planet Earth on BR whch felt like a must own
but there really aren't any movies I feel like plopping $30 for

sre I plan on adding LotR, Blade Runner, SW (Iv,V,Vi) etc... as soon as the prices drop .. the trick is that more adopters will have to join the clan before prices start to fall

 

it's not going to happen anytime soon

the simple switch to DTV (digital television) aka the NTSC to ATSC conversion ,has taken twice as long as it should have. What is now a mandate for early 2009 (2/17/2009), was originally set for various points for the last 5 years or so
and this is a standardized conversion that's been in the works since the early 90's and will not be fully implemented until almost 20 years after the fact
which (when 'activated') will force (supposedly) everyone in the US to :
A- get a new HDTV
B- get a Digital set-top box that will convert D-A for analog sets

sure to be a 'culture shock'


now, you're gonna force them (at nearly the same time) to get new DVD players ? you're joking right ?
there will still be choice.
Any movie released on BluRay will still be released in DVD format

we are not about to see an absolute abandonment of the DVD format
(if that's what you're suggesting)

 

the consumer market tends to always be a format behind the leading technology anyway, so even though early adopters will get some satisfaction from an eventual winner of the HD format war, it probably won't have that large of an impact on the mass consumer markets

if anything, it might drive DVD popularity up do to price drops of an aging and departing format, but it's not going anywhere .... as long as people are buying DVD PLAYERS (which are now less than $50 with Recorders in the $100-$200 range) and DVD movies (dipping into the single digits) the DVD format will continue to live on

in order to truely replace it with Blu-Ray, players will need to dip into the $200 range, titles into the $19.99 range, and recorders with affordable media will need to surface